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HANDLE.

(Applicationled Feb. 10, 1902.)

(mi Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE n. MOLELLAN EUZ'ZELL, or WEST MEDWAY, MASSACHUSETTS.

HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 711,821, dated October 21, 1902.

Application liled February 10. 19

T0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE B. MCLELLAN BUZZELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vest Medway, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Handles, of which the following is a specitication.

My invention relates to an improvementin handles and means for attaching the same to articles to which they are to be applied of that type in which the handle is designed to be swung down to assume a position against the side of the article to which the same is attached when ont of use and to be swung ont in the lifting action and arrested when awayfrom the side of said article and at right angles thereto. Handles of this class are usually applied to burial eoiins or caskets, and as my invention is primarily intended for this purpose I shall illustrate and describe the same in this connection.

The object of this invention is to provide a strong, cheap, efficient, and ornamental arrangement for pivotally connecting the handle of the usual structure to a casket.

To this end the invention consists of the structure to be hereinafter described in detail, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a fragmentary View of the side of a casket with the handle attached thereto; Fig. 2 is atransverse sectional'view. Fig. 3 is a perspective view illustrating one end bar, and Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the attaching-plate. l

The handle shown herein is in appearance of the ordinary type employed upon Gaskets, comprising an ornamental gripping-bar a, having corresponding end bar b, rigidly secured thereto near each end of the same and extending at'right angles thereto. The ends of the bars are secured in ornamental plates c, screwed tothe sides of the casket.

As before premised, the invention herein presented resides in the construction andA arrangement of the plates c and the end bars l), whereby a strong, simple, and eminently satisfactory pivotal connection is provided between said parts.

Each of the plates c is provided with a 0 2. Serial No.93,331. (No model.)

socket d, formed by a centrally-raised Iianged or neck portion e, having the under side cut away or recessed, as at j', and provided with a bar g, extending across from side to side of the liange or neck at the bottom of the same, or above the upper end of the cut-away portion f. The end of each bar b terminates in an angular extension b', joined to the straight portion of the bar by a curved portion which defines a small arc from which the extreme end of the bar extends tangentially.

A shoulder b2 is provided at the end of the straight portion of the bar b, which extends over theupper portion and side thereof for a purpose to be described. On the under side of the bar a transverse groove or recess b3 is provided at the end of the straight portion or between the end and a boss projecting from the under side of the curved portion of the bar lli, which is provided with a thread-opening 4.

In assembling the parts the ends of bars b are' inserted in the sockets d above the bars g, the plates c and bars being held in parallel position to facilitate this operation. The insertion of the ends in the sockets will be arrested when the bars g become seated in the grooves b3.'r The handle is then swung out or around upon said bars as a pivot until the bars b are at right angles to the plates c, when the further movement of the handle will be prevented by the shoulders b2 abutting against the edge of the neck e, while the under side of the eXtreme ends of bars l) will abut against the rear faces of the plates c. With the parts in this position the tap-openings b4 will be brought into alinement with the cut-away p0rtions or recesses f and rendered accessible, so that screws or Similar devices i may be secured therein. The latter provide retaining or locking means to prevent the withdrawal of the ends of the bars l) from the plates c irrespective of the positions assumed by the handle relative to the plates c. This effect is secured by reason of the fact that the heads of the screw serve to maintain the bars g within the grooves b3, and as the extreme ends of bars b extend tangentially from the curved portion thereof at less t-han right angles said ends are forced against the under Wall of the socket when the handle is thrown down, while the heads of the screws bear upon the rear IOO the said end bars having singularly-extending terminals with recesses to receive the cross-bams, and screws having heads coacting with the cross-bars. 15 In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE B. MGLELLAN BUZZELL.

Witnesses:

FRANK L. SAWYER, SEWELL E. KINGSBURY. 

